In May 1940, air raids and bombing sorties carried out by the Luftwaffe destroy a large part of Rotterdam’s Old Town.

‘The Council of Europe …No forecasts. I declare the first sitting open ... I hereby close the final sitting.' In August 1949, the German satirical magazine Der Tintenfisch speculates on the effectiveness of the new European institution.

The front of the Human Rights Building, seat of the European Court of Human Rights, was designed to resemble the scales of justice.

On 1 January 2002, Commissioner Pedro Solbes makes his first cash withdrawal in euros in Brussels.

A stretch of the A-381 Jerez de la Frontera-Los Barrios motorway in Cádiz, a project undertaken by the Junta de Andalucía (Government of the Community of Andalusia) and cofinanced by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). This photo was taken on 5 July 1999 while the motorway was being built.

On 18 February 2005, at the Congress and Exhibition Centre in Madrid, Mariano Rajoy, leader of the Spanish People’s Party, expresses his support for the ‘Yes’ vote for the European Constitution at the closing ceremony of the campaign held in Spain in the run-up to the referendum on 20 February on the ratification of the Constitutional Treaty.